Mississippi Senate Bill 2616 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on February 5 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-02-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Sections 19-13-111, 31-7-15 And 31-7-47, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That In The Letting Of Public Contracts, Preference Shall Be Given To Resident Bidders Whenever All Things Are Equal With Regard To Quality And Service But Differ Only With Regard To Price, If The Aggregate Of The Prices In Bids Received From Resident Bidders Is Not More Than Two Percent Greater Than The Aggregate Of The Prices In Bids Received From Nonresident Bidders; To Provide That A Nonresident Bidder Domiciled In A State Having Laws Granting Preference To Resident Bidders Shall Be Awarded Mississippi Contracts Only On The Same Basis As The Nonresident Bidder's State Awards Contracts To Mississippi Residents Bidding Under Similar Circumstances; And For Related Purposes.

Public contracts; give preference to resident bidders.

Sen. Gray Tollison [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	Senate	Died In Committee
2019-01-21	Senate	Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2019/pdf/history/SB/SB2616.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2616IN.htm